Santa Cruz \u2013 Santa Cruz
\nRelease Date: March 10, 2015
\nLabel: Spinefarm Records<\/p>\n
Santa Cruz is a glam band from Helsinki. I\u2019m sure you just read that and thought to yourself, \u201cWell that makes a lot of fucking sense.\u201d Santa Cruz is a band that is creating a lot of buzz right now in the metal world and I have to say that my interest was piqued solely based on the fact that they are a self-proclaimed glam band in the year 2015. The album opens with \u201cBonafide Heroes\u201d and right away I wanted to fucking hate it. It was so melodic, it was so perfectly produced, had great guitars, melodic catchy songs, a singer who can sing his ass off and huge ass \u201carena style\u201d rock backing vocals. Ok, who am I kidding? I fucking loved it.<\/p>\n
I grew up listening to metal of all kinds and Santa Cruz is doing something really cool. Santa Cruz embodies that kind of heaviness that Skid Row brought into the scene while sounding modernly relevant enough to not sound like a dated throwback band. With songs like \u201cVelvet Rope\u201d, \u201cMy Remedy\u201d and \u201cWe are the Ones To Fall\u201d, Santa Cruz has taken an old school glam rock attitude and mentality and matched it with a much more technical style of playing that makes it heavier than the usual glam while still maintaining the vibe and spirit of glam rock past. This is the kind of music that late era glam bands were doing but they were too late to the dance. In a nutshell, Santa Cruz reminds of what Slik Toxik was doing back in \u201992 and also what Taking Dawn was attempting to do in 2010 or so but failed miserably at.<\/p>\n
Santa Cruz has the songs, the chops and their hearts are in the right place. I can\u2019t tell you the last time I heard a band use the work \u201cfuck\u201d so much that I couldn\u2019t keep count but fuck it. This is a really fun album to listen to but I don\u2019t see this being something that I would consider a go to album. Much like the bands that inspired them, it\u2019s the kind of music that I could see being a kick ass party soundtrack or music to get your work out on to. I\u2019d really, more than anything, like to see if these guys can pull this sound off live and by live I mean WITHOUT backing tapes. All in all Santa Cruz is a fun band that I really enjoyed listening to and they are a band that I will definitely be keeping my eye on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Santa Cruz \u2013 Santa Cruz Release Date: March 10, 2015 Label: Spinefarm Records Santa Cruz is a glam band from Helsinki. I\u2019m sure you just read that and thought to yourself, \u201cWell that makes a lot of fucking sense.\u201d Santa Cruz is a band that is creating a lot of buzz right now in the metal world and I have to say that my interest was piqued solely based on the fact that they are a self-proclaimed glam band in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,277],"tags":[1289],"class_list":["post-14455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-music-news","tag-santa-cruz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19733,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14455\/revisions\/19733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southeastofheaven.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}